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Description:Air/Oil/Coil Spring shock absorber.
Oil damping with floating piston.
Easy-turn spring preload adjuster.
T6 forged AL6061 spring stopper, top eyelet and body.
Hard-chomed shock shaft. Nitrogen-charged.
Travel:18/30/35/40 mm.
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Submitted by
Pavlos
a Cross Country Rider
from Huntsville, AL USA
Date Reviewed: September 23, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | Monte Sano Trails | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Came with Bike | | Strengths: | NONE, unless bloody loud counts. It served it's purpose for about a year and has since made me hate it... if that could only be a strength. | | Weaknesses: | DNM is JUNK!!!
This shock started to squeel within a year (just as other reviewers have noted). You have to lube the eye's constantly. Otherwise each rev of the pedals produces a horrid sound. Makes riding a pain (other riders stare when this puppy screeches) if you don't carry a can o lube around with you to re lube. I find a total cleaning of the rear bushing (the problem bushing in my case) gives me about 40 miles of screech free riding (about 3 days). A lubing gives me about 10 miles... This thing sucks. | | Similar Products Used: | None, first rear suspension bike | | Bike Setup: | Diamondback XTS-1
XT drailleurs/brakes/cassette
LX shifters/Crank etc etc etc
WTB Stealth V saddle
Only stock is frame, rear/front shock | | Bottom Line: | This Shock, and this shock alone have caused me to hate my full suspension bike. I have a friend who has a Fuel 90 and his shock has never caused him grief. I have only 4000 miles on this thing, and it began to screech at around 800 miles. Either way I will never buy a DNM shock or bike with a DNM stock shock on it again. It's total junk. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Fred Janes
a Cross Country Rider
from Ontario
Date Reviewed: July 14, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | Skunk | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | Spoke O Motion | | Strengths: | So far everything has been great, its done what it was made for, absorb bumps!. | | Weaknesses: | Sags to much even with adujustments | | Bike Setup: | Norco Chaos, Marzocchi MZ Comp Fork, well you know the rear shock, Hayes 6" disc f/r, | | Bottom Line: | This is good for beginners/intermediate but I've only had this bike for about 6 months and I'm already wanting to upgrade it to get a stiffer ride in the rear. But still good. Basicly I'd suggest it for riders wanting to get back in to the sport, good shock to start off with, but if your like me you will want to upgrade when you progress to harder and more difficult trails and such. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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Bernd
a Cross Country Rider
from Yokohama
Date Reviewed: April 22, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | city commute, riverside trail | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | with bike (follow-up posting) | | Strengths: | absorbs vibrations. | | Weaknesses: | Develops sloshing noise quickly (few hundred km). Bike shop replaced it on warranty after 3000km (les than a year). The new one got noisy even faster and more noticeably, without even being exposed to a single ride in rain. | | Similar Products Used: | Elastomer suspension on r&m birdy and Tartaruga foldable semi-recumbent | | Bike Setup: | HP Velotechnik Spirit recumbent. Weight 30/70 F/R. Shock is on 1:3 arm giving 60mm travel. | | Bottom Line: | Simple and clean design, works OK if it works, but what if it fails out on tour? Damping barely adequate for a recumbent XC use with 1100 lbs/in spring. Would not recommend for an upright.
Informed opinion: entry-level product, fast deterioration reminds of fake product copies made in China. Suitable to leave a bad experience (twice in my case) and ruin customer's interest for suspension in general and DNM in particular. It's not the technology, cars and motorbikes get tens of thousands of kilometer out of their shocks. Overall negative value. My next bike will have no suspension. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Adam
a Weekend Warrior
from Woodstock, GA
Date Reviewed: April 3, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | online, came with bike | | Strengths: | looks pretty cool, solid feel | | Weaknesses: | not very adjustable | | Similar Products Used: | any other basic coil spring | | Bike Setup: | IBEX Ignition, shimano/bonterager mix, Mavics, disc brakes | | Bottom Line: | Like everyone else says, this shock has no valving adjustment and there is some pedal bob, but for God's sake it's just a simple coil spring! What do they expect? I've done plenty of hopping around on it and have had no issues with bad seals or noise. By the way, the preload is adjustable and can be locked in by sliding the circular stop up or down the threads of the shock body. People need to realize that this shock isn't a Swinger or a Float, it is basic but it works. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Andy
a Cross Country Rider
from Sydney Australia
Date Reviewed: November 6, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Price? | | Weaknesses: | Squeaky bushes, air entering damper and making it sound like its full of water | | Similar Products Used: | Manitou Swinger SPV 3 way air | | Bike Setup: | Felt Nasty Sanchez 2003 | | Bottom Line: | I would rate this as purely an entry level rear shock.
After one ride the rear bushes started squeaking like crazy (if you experience this give the bushes a short spray of Tri-Flow lube to fix it).
After a couple of months of riding, the damper has gotten air in it and sounds awful (basically sounds like theres a load of water sloshing around in there).
If you plan on doing some drops spend your money on something else.....this rear shock is purely for taking a bit of the roughness out of your XC ride, it certainly doesnt inspire any great confidence when riding down a rutted hill, and no matter how far i wound the preload in, there still seemed to be some degree of pedal bob whilst climbing even though i remain seated whilst doing so. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Bernd
a Cross Country Rider
from Yokohama
Date Reviewed: August 19, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | City/park commuting | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | came with bike | | Strengths: | It springs and it dampens. Somewhat. Got silent after 200 km on the road. Integrated rubber bumper catches the worst when bottoming out. Spring preload adjustable, but ... | | Weaknesses: | Damping too weak for 1100 lbs/in spring as used by bike mfg. ; bike has after-bounce. Preload adjustment stuck ater truning more than once. | | Similar Products Used: | Elastomer suspension on r&m birdy | | Bike Setup: | HP Velotechnik Spirit recumbent. Weight 30/70 F/R. Shock is on 1:3 arm giving 60mmm travel. | | Bottom Line: | Better than a hard tail. It absorbs regular road irregularities and helps to fly fast over lowered curbstones. After once adjusting preload up to where I need it and down all the way, I cannot get it back up in the previous position. I have strong hands, turn the spring together with the knurled nut as mfg. advises, tried silicone oil... it does get stuck and I do not want to use any lever. Now I'm bottoming out more often than necessary. Impression: entry-level, was probably spec'd because frame geometry handles only 125mm length. Looking for an air spring replacement already. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Josh Jordan
a Downhiller
from Tokyo
Date Reviewed: August 17, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Nagano Mountains (it's in Japan) | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | S**t Shock. Only a bit of travel | | Weaknesses: | No external adjustments, Just a lump of metal, lasts about no time at all.. | | Bike Setup: | CBR super moto-Custom build. | | Bottom Line: | Well this came with my bike and truly and honelstly. It's s**t. The spring is a bit to stiff. And there are some big curbs in tokyo and this lasted a week there. I can't change it becuase I have to wait to I get some money. Then I'm buying a Romic or 5th element shock. I took the shock apart to see how it was doing and it was totally knackered the damping system had broke so there was no rebound or anything like that. I was running only on the spring so I was P****d. DON'T BUY THIS SHOCK. EVEN IF YOU ARE POOR AND CAN'T AFFORD A BETTER ONE. JUST WAIT AND SAVE MORE MONEY!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Brandon Saliba
a Downhiller
from Milton ,Ontario,Canada
Date Reviewed: January 2, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | My own trail | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | Came with the bike | | Strengths: | You get a a bit of travel at least. Good quality. | | Weaknesses: | Not much travel.I took a 3 foot drop with the spring hard and they bottemed out. My cousins canadian tire bike get the same travel!!!! | | Bike Setup: | Saracen Raw Pro,This rear shock,Mozo rm120ad,Tioga factory DH 2.1,24speed and mechanical disc brakes. | | Bottom Line: | I am 13 years old and I say that this is a junky shock.It does not get good travel and squeeks like crazy if not oiled. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Eric Grove
a Weekend Warrior
from Wilmington, DE, USA
Date Reviewed: June 24, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Middle Run Nature Area, Newark DE | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Came with Bike | | Strengths: | Adjustable preload, good travel, Different rate springs available, | | Weaknesses: | No rebound adjustment, cranking up the spring rate with the adjuster knob is hard as you increase the preload. No lock out feature, no way to lock in your preload setting. | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | 2001 KHS FXT Sport, all stock | | Bottom Line: | Great shock, excellent entry level product. increasing the preload is a beeyoch after you reach 1/2 way. Nitro charged coil over is sweet. Could use a shock wrench for the preload adjustment. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
crazywog onwheels
a Downhiller
from brisbane
Date Reviewed: April 11, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | choc budda | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | came on bike | | Strengths: | long travel and good and good when going downhills with lots of rocks | | Weaknesses: | at the start it sound very gassy but now mine sounds like it's full of water so i getting it fixed | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bottom Line: | good shock when it works | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ace
a Weekend Warrior
from Hebron, Ct
Date Reviewed: March 13, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Outer loop | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Came on bike | | Strengths: | good bump absorption
| | Weaknesses: | LOUD CREEKING- needs some sort of oiling, like mineral oil or even WD40 will work
tough to adjust preload, unless you are incredible hulk, or taking it off the bike, adjusting it, and then putting it back onthe bike, only to find you have gone too far, and is incredibly stiff, like a hard tail. Geuss what? u have to do it all over again until you get it right! | | Similar Products Used: | RS sid air deluxe, fox vannilla | | Bottom Line: | bushings around the eyes must be oiled, or u will sound like bull frog with every bump you hit, resulting in embarrasment and fellow riders insulting you. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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